The featured list of lesson plans, websites, and primary sources can help teachers regularly incorporate APIDA history into the social studies classroom.

This timeline of APIDA history can launch numerous classroom activities that explore the historical, political, and societal contexts of specific events.

Pullout for "Disrupting Dominant Narratives of Asian Americans in the United States Using Yang’s Front Desk"

This article posits that children’s literature can present difficult knowledge about wars in a child-friendly way. The author shares transnational children’s literature and a sample lesson to teach about the Korean War in a more critical and complete manner than is usually provided to students

In “Teaching about the Vietnam War: Centering Southeast Asian Refugee Voices through Children’s Literature,” Sohyun An provides content and pedagogic knowledge for teaching about the Vietnam War through Southeast Asian refugee children’s books. The author provides a brief overview of the war from Southeast Asian perspectives and describes two elementary schoolteachers’ instructional approaches to center Southeast Asian refugee experiences to the Vietnam War lessons. Along with this article, An also created the pullout for this issue, “Handouts and Resources for Teaching about the Vietnam War…

In this article, we offer resources and activities that highlight Patsy Mink's congressional achieve- ments and experiences, and push young students to think about the institution of Congress with a gendered lens.

Melanie McCormick and Alycia West implore educators to engage in thoughtful conversations about transnational adoption in “Seen but not Seen: Supporting Transracial and Transnational Adoptees in the Classroom.” The authors draw on their stories of growing up as transracial and transnational adoptees as well as their research on children’s literature on adoption to provide instructional guidelines and resources for teachers to teach about transnational adoption.

Handouts for lesson described in "Teaching Difficult Knowledge of World War II in the Philippines with Children’s Literature and Inquiry" by Sohyun An

Each year, NCSS seeks approximately five new members to serve on our Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Book Committee. The book committee consists of 15 members who review, evaluate, and select social studies trade books for our annual bibliography: "Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People." The "Notables" contain 100-200 titles selected from as many as 900 books submitted by publishers each year. The list is published annually in the May/June issue of Social Education. See previous Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Lists. Requirements…